Session: Trials of Complex Interventions

Complex interventions are widely used in the
health service, in public health practice, and in areas of social
policy that have important health consequences, such as education,
transport, and housing’. The ‘MRC Framework for the Development and
Evaluation of Complex Interventions’, sought to improve the design
and feasibility of such trials. Since then, the Framework has been
updated, and it has been applied in a wide variety of different
trial settings.

Aims

- review and discuss the process of
developing, designing and running trials of complex
interventions.

- address the methodological challenges in
these trials

- review new methodologies or offer empirical
evidence on the value of different approaches